Communication is at the heart of good business and strong professional relationships. Without good staff relationships, stress soars, productivity plummets and creativity is stifled. Mindfulness improves the ability to work well with others even if the relationship is fraught with difficulty.

The issue of productivity embraces a whole range of human psychological skills. This includes being more in the present to focus on the job at hand, making wise decisions, thinking creatively and bringing out the best in others. Mindfulness has been proven to bring changes in all of these areas.

When pressure turns to stress, productivity plummets. Over time, a stressful workplace can tip into being a toxic environment. This increases risk of high absenteeism, valuable staff leaving and damage to the company reputation and brand. Mindfulness has strong evidence for reducing stress and improving mental health.

Mindfulness has drawn attention at the White House and 10 Downing Street, turned heads at the World Economic Forum and worked its way into the curricula of the world-famous business schools. A growing number of businesses are recognising what mindfulness has to offer and have been early adopters of mindfulness in the workplace. This includes Google, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG, and PwC, Transport for London (TfL) and The Cabinet Office.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

Teach staff out to bring out the best in others and themselves. Mindfulness helps tap inner resources.

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STAFF RELATIONSHIPS

Companies are about companionship. Mindfulness helps you strengthen connections.

MINDFULNESSAT WORK

Mindfulness is popular because it brings synergy across key human resources (HR) functions. The key principles of mindfulness span HR disciplines.

For example, the same skills helping employees manage stress (occupational health), helps them concentrate and learn more productively (learning and development), and also assists them in deal with conflict within the organisation as well as with internal and external customers (staff relationships). Bringing mindfulness to one domain will reflect interactively and dynamically in the others.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

STAFF WELLBEING

Pressure can be helpful until it tips to stress. Over time, a stressful workplace can become toxic. This increases risk of high absenteeism, valuable staff leaving and in some cases damage to the company reputation and brand. Mindfulness has strong evidence for reducing stress and improving mental health.

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

STAFF & LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Most businesses are concerned about boosting productivity. Productivity engages a whole range of human psychological skills. This includes being more in the present to focus on the job, making sound decisions that enhance the business, thinking creatively to spot better solutions and leading others to work towards a vision and mission. Mindfulness has been proven to bring changes in all of these areas.

STAFF RELATIONSHIPS

TEAM WORK

Companies are the companionship of teams. Communication is at the heart of and strong professional relationships are key to a well-functioning organisation. Without good co-operation between employees, stress can rise while productivity falls and creativity stalls. Mindfulness improves the ability to work well with others even if the relationship is fraught with difficulty.

THE MINDFUL LEADER

“Mindfulness gives you a greater sense of clarity, it gives you a sense of calm, it allows you to prioritize and put the important over the immediate, and to kind of get out of this 24-7 stress-based world we’re in.

“And I’ve also found that my most creative ideas come out of meditation. So anything that can do all of that in 20 minutes is worth it!”

PROFESSOR BILL GEORGE, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

WHY MINDFULNESS AT WORK?

In mindfulness training, the course is a start for skills which ripple out and expands for many years to come across many spheres of the individual’s life.

To illustrate this, here is a clip of Professor Bill George from Harvard Business Schoolspeaking from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting about the benefits of mindfulness. He says:

MINDFULNESS AT WORKTRAINING

The BeingWell offers organisations various forms of tasters, courses and bespoke programmes.

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